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If anyone’s written the soundtrack of our 40-and-over lives, it’s Kenny Loggins.

“Footloose,” “Danger Zone,” “Danny’s Song,” “This Is It”…are you singing yet? Loggins and Messina haven’t toured for years, but Loggins is still footloose.

His new CD, “Finally Home,” came out this year, and he’s coming to Long Island this week to sign copies of the book “Frosty the Snowman” (he recorded the CD in the back).

Granted, it’s no “The Unimaginable Life: Lessons Learned on the Path of Love,” the book he wrote with his ex, but at least they won’t be reading from “Frosty” at the next “Celebrity Autobiography.”

Here are four books revolving around the singer’s favorite themes: searching, vulnerability, creativity and connections.

Shantaram
by Gregory David Roberts

The title means “man of peace,” and this book [about an Australian bank robber and addict who escapes from jail for India] is an amazing combination of fiction and autobiography. Every chapter took me from a place of frustration to a place of peace. To quote from the book: “If you make your heart into a weapon, you always end up using it on yourself.”

Daring Greatly
by Brene Brown

“Vulnerability is the catalyst for courage, compassion and connection,” Brown writes. When I hit the scary places in my own life, this book helps me remember that vulnerability is an asset . . . I also learned that a man who is willing to “reveal his shame” is courageous and worthy of love.

The Tender Bar: A Memoir
by J.R. Moehringer

This story of a boy in search of his father moved me on many levels. Though the author found many different kinds of men to model maleness on in his Uncle Charlie’s Long Island bar, ultimately he had to find that integrity within himself.

The Soundtrack Of My Life
by Clive Davis

I confess that my enjoyment of this book was totally personal. I knew Clive back in the 1970s, when he signed Jimmy Messina and myself to our Columbia Records deal. I enjoyed going back to that time through his memories . . . Clive also explains why he made the decisions he made. Had I known then the reasoning behind his advice, I would have listened to him more intently.